A NEW work by Tennyson is the best gift that literature has had in her bestowal for these many years ; and this last volume, with its familiar grace and charm, renews the old pleasure. His art has ...

The grand old man of Victorian letters was once a young romantic, whose grief-soaked early verse still dazzles and unsettles.

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“ THIS dramatic monologue,” as Tennyson describes the title-poem of his latest volume 1 in his dedication of it to his wife, has met with little justice at the hands of the public. Just how much the ...

A digitization of a draft from the Wren Library (above) and a multispectral image processed by Michael Sullivan from raw imaging by Andrew Beeby (below) Master and Fellows of Trinity College, ...

March 1969: One great poet on another – Larkin on Tennyson By Philip Larkin In 1969, Philip Larkin reviewed a new edition of Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poems. The New Statesman’s editor at the time, Paul ...

A line from an Alfred Tennyson poem has been chosen to inspire athletes taking part in the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield", from Ulysses, will ...

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